{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/caravans-act-northern-ireland-1963/section-3",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/caravans-act-northern-ireland-1963/section-3.json",
  "legislation": "apni/1963/17",
  "legislation_title": "Caravans Act (Northern Ireland) 1963",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/caravans-act-northern-ireland-1963",
  "path": "section/3",
  "kind": "section",
  "number": "3",
  "heading": "Issue of site licences by district councils.",
  "text": "(1) An application for the issue of a site licence in respect of any land may be made by the occupier thereof to the [ district council] in whose [ district] the land is situated.\n(2) An application under this section shall be in writing and shall specify the land in respect of which the application is made; and the applicant shall, either at the time of making the application or within such period as the [ district council] may determine, give to the [ district council] such other information as they may reasonably require.\n(3) A [ district council] may on an application under this section issue a site licence in respect of the land if, and only if, the applicant is, at the time when the site licence is issued, entitled to the benefit of a permission for the use of the land as a caravan site granted under the Planning Act .\n(4) If at the date when the applicant duly gives the information required by virtue of sub-section (2) he is entitled to the benefit of such a permission as aforesaid, the [ district council] shall, on the payment by the applicant of a fee of ten pounds, issue a site licence in respect of the land within two months of that date or, if the applicant and the [ district council] agree in writing that the [ district council] shall be afforded a longer period within which to grant a site licence, within the period so agreed.\n(5) If the applicant becomes entitled to the benefit of such a permission as aforesaid at some time after duly giving the information required by virtue of sub-section (2) the [ district council] shall, on the payment by the applicant of a fee of ten pounds, issue a site licence in respect of the land within six weeks of the date on which he becomes so entitled or, if the applicant and the [ district council] agree in writing that the [ district council] shall be afforded a longer period within which to grant a site licence, within the period so agreed.\n(6) Notwithstanding anything in sub-sections (1) to (5), a [ district council] shall not at any time issue a site licence to a person who to their knowledge has held a site licence which has been revoked in pursuance of this Act less than three years before that time.",
  "extent": "N.I.",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "SRO (NI) 1973/285"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F2",
      "text": "1985 NI 15"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F3",
      "text": "1991 NI 11"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F4",
      "text": "Words in s. 3(3) substituted (13.2.2015 for specified purposes, 1.4.2015 in so far as not already in operation) by Planning Act (Northern Ireland) 2011 (c. 25), s. 254(1)(2), Sch. 6 para. 1 (with s. 211); S.R. 2015/49, arts. 2, 3, Sch. 1 (with Sch. 2 (as amended (16.3.2016) by S.R. 2016/159, art. 2))"
    },
    {
      "type": "C",
      "label": "C1",
      "text": "S. 3(3) modified (13.2.2015 for specified purposes, 1.4.2015 in so far as not already in operation) by Planning Act (Northern Ireland) 2011 (c. 25), ss. 169(7)(a), 254(1), (2) (with s. 211); S.R. 2015/49, arts. 2, 3, Sch. 1 (with Sch. 2 (as amended (16.3.2016) by S.R. 2016/159, art. 2))"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/apni/1963/17/section/3",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T21:32:55.975539+00:00"
  },
  "licence": "Open Government Licence v3.0",
  "licence_url": "https://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/doc/open-government-licence/version/3/",
  "attribution": "Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. Source: legislation.gov.uk, The National Archives."
}